Hybrid Book Forum with John Minford: Ch'ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love

Professor John Minford is coming to the Digital Humanities Lab on Friday 6 November to talk about his new anthology, Ch’ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love. It's a hybrid session, so you can either head over to Seminar Room 1 in the Queen's Building at Streatham Campus or join in from home via Microsoft Teams. It runs from 12:00 to 14:00, which puts it right in the middle of the day.

Ch’ing is a broad collection that pulls together Chinese writing on love, passion and desire across the centuries, from the Book of Songs all the way through to modern poetry. Minford is a world-renowned sinologist and translator, and if you've come across Chinese classics in English, there's a good chance you've read his work. He's translated The Story of the Stone, The Art of War, the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching. He spent a decade as Professor of Chinese at the Australian National University from 2006 to 2016, and these days he's a Senior Honorary Research Fellow here at Exeter, currently finishing his translation of the remaining Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling.

It's not just Minford on the bill. He'll be joined by a panel of discussants: Dr Jingjing Cao, Ms Yizhou Feng, Professor Yunchun Liu from Beibu Gulf University in China, and Ms Xi Min, all from Exeter. Dr Yue Zhuang will moderate the conversation. The whole thing is hosted by the Global China Research Centre (GCRC) at Exeter, which works with 'Global China' as a way of seeing China not just as a geographic region, but as a non-European epistemology. The forum runs from 12:00 to 14:00 on Friday 6 November at the Digital Humanities Lab, Queen's Building, Streatham Campus, and online via Microsoft Teams.